"He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe."2 Thess. 1:10.

"It is necessary to remember the double
meaning of that word "glorify."
Christ
glorifies us by making us glorious.
He
sheds radiance and lustre from himself
upon us.
We glorify Christ by the exhibition
of that reflected and derived
light.
If we help any dim eye to apprehend
his goodness and truth, his perfect
fairness and infinite beauty, then we
glorify God.
In this latter sense the
word is employed here where the apostle
is speaking about the wonderful
things that are to accompany that great
event, the coming of Jesus Christ.
Like
the eastern sun rising above the horizon,
and compassed with rose-tinted clouds
that derive all their lustre and color from
his brightness, he in the midst of thousands
of them that love and serve him,
shall pour out a flood of glory upon the
waiting and wondering world.

He shall come to be recognized as
glorious, and to manifest forth his glory
in his saints, and to be wondered at
amongst all them that believe.
Such
shall be the illustrious beauty and strange
perfectness of character with which
Christ's servants shall be arrayed at his
manifestation, that all the universe looking
at them will receive a loftier impression
of what Christ himself is.
That is
the thought of the passage put into more
modern though far weaker words.
The
idea that runs all through the New Testament
is thisthat so absolutely and
indissolubly one are Christ and Christian
people as that his destiny is their
destiny and his character their character.
There is a time coming when all
who are in Christ shall be manifested in
glory before the universe as part of the
manifestation of Jesus Christ.
When the
hidden Christ, that is now lost in the
blazethe privacy of that inaccessible
light, is manifested forth, then will all
that love him shine forth, too.
The light
that was hidden below the obscuration
and limitations of fleshthe life that was
almost smothered by this animal and
natural lifethe life that was only faint
and dim while in the worldthat life
shall blaze out free from all the obscurity
and limitations, and with him be manifested
in glory.

The present is like a dark lantern with
the slide scarcely up at all, while that to
which we are looking forward, is like the
same lantern with the slide up.
This is a
wonderful metaphor in which the Master
himself puts it"Then shall the righteous
blaze out like the sun in the kingdom
of the Father."
You have seen the
thing our Lord refers to.
Some cloudy
and dark day, with no color in the grass
and flowers, the birds all silent, everything
cold and gloomy, all at once some
gust of wind or some thinning of the air
canopy comes, and out streams the glad
light, and everything awakens, scents
and sounds; music of the birds, the grass
gleams green again, and the waves of
the sea glance in the sun as it blazes out
upon it.
So says Christthe hidden light
we carry shall gleam out in its true
properties.

All that we are in the depths of our
desires, and the imperfect but often infinite aspirations of our better selvesall that we are, shall blaze forth before
all that are there to look.
In the manifestation
of the sons of God, the depths
of their nature shall be brought visibly
to all men, like the depths of some pure
sea where you can behold the sun at the
bottom sparkling upon every little bit of rock that may lie there."AlexanderMcLaren.